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net: Do not allocate page fragments that are not skb aligned
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:44:18 +0000 (14:44 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:48:43 +0000 (15:48 -0800)
commit883bf8b60d63749fd169c4fcb9248d4a6df11ea9
tree1ff1c631dd480f88ed716d02d858bba7530726d6
parent254632c108e0e424b51fdd70ee040bd3c643f2da
net: Do not allocate page fragments that are not skb aligned

This patch addresses the fact that there are drivers, specifically tun,
that will call into the network page fragment allocators with buffer sizes
that are not cache aligned. Doing this could result in data alignment
and DMA performance issues as these fragment pools are also shared with the
skb allocator and any other devices that will use napi_alloc_frags or
netdev_alloc_frags.

Fixes: 23f9324580f6 ("net: Split netdev_alloc_frag into __alloc_page_frag and add __napi_alloc_frag")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/skbuff.c